Happy Holidays

Happy New Year everyone!  I just got back from our Christmas program at the baby hospital.  I think it went better this time than yesterday’s performance at the other baby orphanage.  The kids seemed to enjoy it more and it looked like the staff did too.  Again we gave each of the kids a teddy bear and each of the staff ladies a gift.  After we packed everything up they invited us to have tea with them.  The lady that sat with us said this was the first time they invited a group to have tea with them.  We asked many questions about the kids and the workers there.  At first she was very hesitant to talk about the group that was with us today but then she mentioned they were the HIV group.  We said we already figured that and it was fine for us.  I guess most people are kind of scared of them but we hugged them and played with them anyway.  If a baby is born to an HIV mother it is automatically put with the HIV group until it is a year and a half.  At that time it is re-tested and then either put with normal kids or they stay with the HIV group.  Most were tiny so they may or may not have HIV but one boy was already 4 so he is infected.  Afterwards I went throughout the hospital giving gifts to ladies that were not at the program.  This week we gave 30 gifts to ladies.  Tonight I go again to the hospital to feed the babies.  Yesterday I went as well.  We heard from one of the ladies that Dema, a baby boy, used to show no emotions at all much like a vegetable I guess you can say.  Recently he has started to show more emotions and looks very different.  I believe we will start to hear more and more good reports like this about all of the babies as we go and pray for them, touch them, feed them, and show God’s love to them. 

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